Azure SQL Database Managed Instance – Deep Dive

Jovan Popovic

Azure SQL Managed Instance is a new database service in Azure cloud that combines the best features from Azure SQL Database and SQL Server. This is a fully managed PaaS service that provides built-in and automated high-availability, backups, automatic tuning, monitoring, and maintenance. Combined with classic SQL Server features and components such as In-memory technologies, SQL Agent, Service Broker, native restore, cross-database queries, and linked servers, it represents a unique database offer in the cloud. In this session, you will see how to choose the right configuration of Azure SQL Managed Instance and configure it using PowerShell/ARM, migrate your databases, and understand architecture and some constraints that you need to be aware.